Multi Touch DJ Light Table by GERGWERK
This is a really cool project, which demonstrates how advances in UI and technology can be translated to music. This is a senior project by Kansas City Art Institute student Gerg Kaufman (AKA GERGWERK), which aims to digitize the traditional equipment used by DJs to enhance mobility. Through the project he’s explored how to maintain [...]
SoundForms – Collaborative music interface
Soundforms is an interface for collaborative musical composition by Seth Hunter and Pol Pla. It is one of the most interesting uses of object recognition on a surface interface I’ve seen. I love seeing new interfaces being applied to music, it’s like being introduced to a new instrument for the very first time. It makes [...]
Holographic UI – Swedish House Mafia & Absolute (Greyhound)
Here’s a commercial/music video featuring Swedish House Mafia for Absolute Vodka. The video shows the three DJs using holographic UIs to control robotic greyhounds in a race. It hints early on, at how the UI captures movements and how the greyhounds respond accordingly, but that’s as deep as it goes. This video is more about [...]
Instrument UX Reel
We don’t usually post showreels here, but here’s one that focuses purely on UX projects! It’s from Instrument, the guys behind the Nike IdNation spot. I’m excited to know that there are studios out there who have enough work and put enough emphasis in UX design to warrant a reel dedicated to it! On top [...]
Dr. Dre “HP Envy Commercial”
Dr Dre works his magic on a touch screen mixer in this futuristic spot for HP. Love the colours used in the dials and the soft glows, in the very clean graphic interface. It’ll be interesting to see more music GUIs as technology develops. “Token” is one example of this, a multitouch live performance tool [...]